Great Lycopene Fraud -Roger Mason

Lycopene is one of the most popular and best selling food supplements going. All the natural health “experts” recommend lycopene for better health, especially prostate health. This is a caretenoid in tomatoes. Tomatoes are a toxic nightshade vegetable (actually a fruit botanically), so this is immediately suspect. Tomatoes contains the poisonous alkaloids solanine and tomatine. Only recently have they become a popular food. For centuries most cultures considered them tox-ic and inedible. Every health food store and internet site sells lycopene. Not us, though.

It's all a fraud folks. There are just no valid human studies showing any value at all for lyco-pene. This great discovery started by asking men (I'm serious now) how much pizza they ate in the last year. Seriously, they asked them how much pizza they were eating. Pizza is a real health food, right? And they call this "science".  Please read the other articles in our library exposing lycopene. No one else is exposing this hoax but us.

Asians and Africans (in Africa) have the lowest rates of prostate disease in the world, and tomat-oes are basically not in their diets. If you see tomatoes in your pepper steak at the Chinese res-taurant, please realize that is an American invention. Only in the last few decades have Ameri-cans started eating tomatoes. They are a tropical plant.

Only tomatoes cooked in oil will raise your blood levels of lycopene. This is a scientific fact. You can literally drink a gallon of tomato juice, or eat five pounds of fresh tomatoes a day and not raise your lycopene levels one iota. Only tomatoes that have been well cooked in oil have any power to raise blood serum lycopene.

The real proof here is comparing men with prostate disease to healthy men and measuring their lycopene serum (not plasma) levels. This has been done, and the results prove beyond any doubt that serum lycopene is unrelated in any way to prostate disease. In 1990, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, researchers studied the serum of 25,802 dead men with their medical records. They found that lycopene levels were irrelevant. This was published in the prestigious J. Nat. Cancer Soc. (v. 82, 1990). Another study was published in the journal Cancer Epidem. Bio. Previews (v. 6, 1997) also showing lycopene levels to be irrelevant. Many dietary studies have shown no relation at all between dietary intake of lycopene and prostate disease. Both the British J. of Cancer  (v. 76, 1997) and  American J. Epidem. (v. 133, 1991) showed no relation to diet among many other such studies. Tens of thousands of real men prove this beyond any doubt. There are no valid human studies showing any benefits at all.

So, who is behind this? The tomato processors of course! The natural supplement industry is a disgrace and the people in this business will sell anything they can to get your money. It's hard to admit this, as natural health is my profession. Young Again is the only company in the world to expose this scam. Even Quackwatch is too stupid to get it.

The shame here is that sincere men will go out by the millions and pay good money for this, get no benefit, and end up saying, "Well, natural medicine doesn't work". If lycopene did have benefit for prostate disease or any other illness we would praise it to the skies, and print studies showing the proof. Lycopene is a well done fraud folks. No one else on this planet is exposing this fraud but us. We’re here to make you health, not take your money.

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